Journal article
Rethinking the 'everyday' in 'ethnicity and everyday life'
Ethnic and racial studies, v 38(7), pp 1137-1151
28 May 2015
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Abstract
While 'ethnicity and everyday life' is a familiar collocation, sociologists concerned with racism and ethnicity have not engaged very much with the extensive body of social theory that takes the 'everyday' as its central problematic. In this essay, I consider some of the ways in which the sociology of the everyday might be of use to those concerned with investigating ethnicity and racism. For its part, however, the sociology of the everyday has tended to be remarkably blind to the role played by racism and racialization in the modern world. It is thus no less crucial to consider how the experiences of racialized groups might help us rethink influential accounts of the everyday. To this end, I provide a discussion of pioneering texts by C. L. R. James and W. E. B. du Bois, both of whom were driven by their reflections on racism and resistance to recognize the everyday not as an unremarked context, but as, precisely, a problematic one.
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- Title
- Rethinking the 'everyday' in 'ethnicity and everyday life'
- Creators
- Andrew Smith
- Publication Details
- Ethnic and racial studies, v 38(7), pp 1137-1151
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- ES/K002198/1 / Economic and Social Research Council (10.13039/501100000269)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000351932900007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84926160452
- Other Identifier
- 991021013090304721
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